There are certain characters that LaTeX has trouble with. One of the main offenders is the tilde (~) symbol. If you include it in plaintext, it disappears in the resulting ps or pdf document. I found out the hard way today when trying to include a URL in a pdf document. However, it gets worse – some of the suggested work arounds do not solve the problem. They create the ~ symbol but the URL still doesn’t work.

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About glossarch

The word "glossarch" doesn't exist. At least, not yet. But let's pretend it does for a second. The first part is "gloss," a word that comes to us from Ancient Greek via Latin and English. It means "language." The second part also comes from Ancient Greek and can mean "having power over." So "glossarch" means simply "language controller."
So what am I doing making up words? Well, I made up an entire language once. It's called Angosey. So I'm the Glossarch of Angosey.
I'm currently a doctorate student in volcano seismology (a branch of geophysics). I enjoy writing fiction and poetry, launching balloons, programming, and hanging out with my lovely wife!
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Writing and language creation: @glossarch
Balloons and science: @bovineaerospace